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These latter seven units will particularly excite the curiosity of the reunion visitors. The sight of panelled rooms, with private study and bath, telephone and shower; dining halls, and well-stocked libraries, prompts inevitably the liturgical refrain, "Why, when I was in college," and perhaps the queries: can the undergraduate afford this luxury? and has this House Plan benefited...
...convention will begin with registration in Baker Library at 1 o'clock today. The registration fee will be $3, while a room and bath in one of the dormitories can be had for $2. The price of the dinner and smoker will be $1.50. Although many requests for permission to attend these sessions have been received from outside the School, the meeting will be open only to graduates of the School and their families, since most of the speakers want to express themselves freely on confidential subjects connected with the depression...
...does not change though the institutions of man do. In the moonlight they saw the sparkling water, heard the long drawn chuckle, felt the oppressive Cambridge heat. They smiled with heavy assurance each upon the other. Here was a method more amusing and quicker than a cold bath. And in the waiting silence a profounder laugh was added to the long drawn chuckle of the fountains. Up went the windows, out went heads, down went the windows, out came boys. And in the next half hour six hundred Harvard seniors made an aged tradition. It was as simple as that...
...bridge over the depression is to bring any real advantages, be young avoiding the evil of overcrowding the professions, a new fashion for the "American in Paris" must be developed, and the Gershwin tradition abandoned: Americans, like the rude British, have been in the habit of carrying their bath-tubs and their customs with them in their peregrinations; serious study of foreign life can be made only if the traveler lays aside his attitudes, and adopts those of his hosts, as he adopts their language. When the American student is willing to do this perhaps he will be able...
...reminiscences. Locally he worked on the Cambridge Horse Car Line, ran a tobacco shop near Beacon Hill, and for some time before he was enrolled with the Lampoon he was employed along the Gold Coast. Many of his stories dealt with his travels about the world, now as a bath-steward on a North Atlantic liner, now as crew on a cattle-ship. His repertoire included tales of the Boston fire and many epic incidents from Australian experiences. His unique humor and his growing resemblance to Mr. Punch fitted him eminently for his position, and he considered himself an integral...